Abraham Lincoln said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." In other words, our personal level of satisfaction is entirely within our control. Otherwise, why would the same experience disappoint one person but delight another? Happiness is not an accident but a choice.
Is happiness something
over which people have no control, or can people choose to be happy? Plan an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Write one well-developed body paragraph. Support
your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies,
experience, or observations.
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